Amazon.com review summary for JVC GR-D270

alaTest has collected and analyzed 81 user reviews of JVC GR-D270 from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 3.5/5, compared to an average user rating of 3.9/5 for other Camcorders on Amazon.com. Views about the zoom and size are generally positive. The portability and price also get good feedback, but there are some less positive comments about the reliability and battery.

JVC GR-D270 First Impressions Review - JVC MiniDV Camcorders

The GR-D270 is the middle camcorder of the three to be released within this line by JVC. It retails for US$449.95. Interestingly, this is one-hundred dollars less than the previous year's model, the JVC GR-D72. All of this camera's CCD specs are...

Expert Review

The JVC GR-D270 is the middle-of-the-road low-end JVC this year, and in our opinion the best value among cheaper JVCs this year. It features the same imager (CCD-Charge Coupled Device) as both of the other lower-end JVCs, the GR-D250 and GR-D295, and...

Great Camera

Garbage

I bought this camera a year ago. Took it to Colombia and it shot DECENT quality. Low light was absolutely horrible. But you get what you pay for. While the camera was working it was OK. Just used to film little stuff...not like I was making a movie or ...

no good, jvc=poor customer service

A Lightweight, in All the Wrong Ways

My faithful old Sony Hi8 camcorder bit the dust, so I decided to 'upgrade' to the digital MiniDV, happy that it weighed about half what the old camera did. Well, first off, don't assume (as I did, alas) that 'digital' is going to give you a better...

Lightweight, reasonably simple menus.

Bad colors in all light, awful image at night or indoors, truly abysmal still images.